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This course is designed for individuals interested in changing how people are managed-to dispel flawed assumptions about human resource strategies and develop new techniques. In the past, human resource practices rarely served as a source of innovation in organizations. Rather, when establishing guidelines, policies, and rules, most companies chose to follow the norm, which often was unsatisfying and frustrating for their employees. These same firms chose not to focus on their human resource practices as a source of competitive advantage that could be used to hire the best talent, perform at the highest level, and weather the most difficult times. More recently, new ideas about the optimal approach to managing the firm's most important asset-its human capital-have flourished. As a result, a debate has surfaced in the corporate world about the best ways to get work done-from the allocation of job tasks to the structure of financial incentives. We tackle many of these fundamental questions in this course-what is the best way to hire people, to give performance feedback, to foster collaboration-but we look at these problems through a new lens, one informed more by evidence and analysis than by tradition and intuition. This class is an exercise in collaboration: a joint effort by a practitioner and an academic who are both hopelessly optimistic about how the management of human resources can be improved. In each session, we will tackle a novel and important topic (e.g., engagement surveys?) from three distinct points of view, first describing what is currently done, then identifying alternative approaches in other firms, and finally considering what a bold and creative approach might look like. After taking this course, you will be better able to: (1) identify misconceptions that undermine the effectiveness of human resource strategies; (2) learn new insights about human motivation in the workplace and (3) design new tools that can improve the working lives of your employees. We believe this perspective will be invaluable to you throughout your career.